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GNOME 50 Beta Released With Stable VRR, GDM Improvements

13. Únor 2026 - 22:09
The GNOME 50 beta release is now available ahead of the official GNOME 50 desktop due out in March...

NVIDIA Posts Open-Source Nouveau GSP Driver Support For GA100

13. Únor 2026 - 20:36
One of the latest NVIDIA open-source contributions this week wasn't for the in-development Nova kernel driver but for enhancing the existing Nouveau kernel driver. The patch posted is for bringing up the NVIDIA GA100 GPU under Nouveau using the GPU System Processor (GSP)...

Multi-Lane SPI Support Merged For Linux 7.0

13. Únor 2026 - 19:32
With the Serial Peripheral Interface "SPI" subsystem updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel comes support for multi-lane SPI...

Linux 7.0 Lands ML-DSA Quantum-Resistant Signature Support

13. Únor 2026 - 17:20
Adding to the exciting features for the big Linux 7.0 kernel release is support for the Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm "ML-DSA" quantum-resistant signature algorithm...

Evaluating The Performance Cost To AMD SEV-SNP On EPYC 9005 VMs

13. Únor 2026 - 16:17
AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) provides memory encryption and integrity protections that can be especially useful in modern cloud computing. Typically a 2~10% performance overhead is reported when engaging AMD SEV-SNP for these hardware-backed security protections. In this article is an extensive look at the current AMD SEV-SNP performance impact for confidential computing on EPYC 9005 "Turin" servers. The current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS was tested as well as an Ubuntu 26.04 development snapshot in evaluating the latest optimizations and what is on the horizon this year for AMD EPYC Linux server performance.

Linux Gets Rid Of Intel 440BX EDAC Driver For Old Pentium CPUs After Being Broken For 19+ Years

13. Únor 2026 - 14:25
As some long overdue housekeeping, the Linux 7.0 kernel has removed an Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver for the Intel 440BX and 440GX chipset. The driver is being removed not only because that chipset was just used by old Celerons and Pentium II / Pentium III CPUs but that it's been in the kernel all this time while being known to be broken for 19+ years...

Sheaves Ready To Play A Bigger Role In Linux 7.0

13. Únor 2026 - 14:04
The slab memory allocator feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel. Most notable this cycle is expanded use of the recently-introduced Sheaves functionality...

Intel Nova Lake Sound Support In Linux 7.0

13. Únor 2026 - 12:03
Merged for the Linux 6.19 kernel was initial Nova Lake S audio support. Now merged this week for the Linux 7.0 kernel is enabling sound support for additional Nova Lake platforms...

Libinput 1.31 Released With Configurable Timeouts, Fast 3-Finger Swipes

13. Únor 2026 - 11:45
Red Hat's leading input expert Peter Hutterer announced the release overnight of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by the Linux desktop on both X.Org and Wayland desktop sessions...

A Few More ASUS Motherboards Now Support Sensor Reporting With Linux 7.0

13. Únor 2026 - 11:36
All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window...

Haiku OS Lands Improved Touchpad Support, Still Working Toward Beta 6

13. Únor 2026 - 11:25
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS kicked off 2026 by making many improvements to its kernel, device drivers, and user-space software...

Linux 7.0 MM Changes Bring Some Very Nice Performance Optimizations

13. Únor 2026 - 2:40
All of the memory management "MM" related patches have now been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window...

XFS Introducing Autonomous Self-Healing Capabilities With Linux 7.0

13. Únor 2026 - 1:30
The XFS file-system has some interesting new feature work and performance tuning with the Linux 7.0 kernel that will be used by the likes of Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS this spring...

Intel Posts 2026 Update For Cache Aware Scheduling On Linux

12. Únor 2026 - 22:18
Not in time for the current Linux 7.0 cycle but posted for another round of review is Intel's latest work around Cache Aware Scheduling for enhancing the performance of modern CPUs with multiple cache domains. This is the first set of updates to Cache Aware Scheduling for the new year and succeed the v2 patches from early December. This work not only benefits modern Intel CPUs but our testing has shown can also provide some very nice gains too for AMD EPYC processors...

EXT4 In Linux 7.0 Improves Write Performance For Concurrent Direct I/O Writes

12. Únor 2026 - 21:54
Sent out and already merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel are the EXT4 file-system updates...

AMD Video Decode Now Unified Between RadeonSI & RADV Vulkan Video

12. Únor 2026 - 19:20
Merged today to Mesa 26.1-devel is unifying of the AMD video decode implementation between the RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers...

SPARC & Alpha CPU Ports Still Seeing Activity In 2026 With Linux 7.0

12. Únor 2026 - 18:30
In addition to all of the exciting Intel and AMD x86_64 enhancements that have been landing this week so far for the Linux 7.0 kernel, the aging SPARC, Alpha, and Motorola 680x0 "m68k" CPU ports have also seen some patches for this new kernel...

Arch Linux Running Well On LoongArch - Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks

12. Únor 2026 - 17:05
Earlier this month I posted benchmarks of the Loongson 3B6000 for this 12-core / 24-thread LoongArch Chinese CPU with DDR4 ECC memory. Those initial benchmarks were done with Debian LoongArch64 while since then I've shifted over to using Arch Linux on LoongArch.

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Now Available With Linux 6.17 HWE Kernel

12. Únor 2026 - 16:45
Canonical released Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS today as the newest point release to the Noble Numbat...

Linux 7.0 Networking: Prepping For WiFi 8 UHR While Dropping Last Parallel Port Ethernet Driver

12. Únor 2026 - 16:00
The Linux 7.0 networking pull request showcases two extremes and the diversity and robustness of the open-source kernel ecosystem. Linux 7.0 is laying the groundwork for WiFi 8 Ultra-High Reliability (UHR) support while this kernel version is also bidding farewell to the last Ethernet driver for use over parallel printer ports...